Let's give the New Orleans Hornets a localized name

12:22 AM,
May 7, 2012

Written by

Glenn Guilbeau

As a 12-year-old in the New Orleans area in 1974, I was extremely excited about the city getting an NBA team. Then I heard the nickname of the team was going to be the Jazz. First off, the whole singular-plural thing confused me. What is a Jazz? Can it fight? Can it shoot?

It ended up being one of the coolest names in all of sports. Jazz music, born of African and European traditions much like the city itself, is said to have started in New Orleans in 1910. The name just caught on. ...